Abstract
Peroxidase-catalyzed proximity labeling is a powerful technique for defining the molecular environment of proteins in vivo. Expressing a protein of interest fused to a modified plant peroxidase (APEX2) allows labeling of nearby polypeptides. Addition of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and biotin-tyramide (biotin-phenol) generates short-lived radicals around the peroxidase. Labeling is thus restricted to proteins in close proximity, providing a snapshot of the local environment around the APEX2 fusion protein. Combined with an initial perturbation, progressive changes in interaction partners can be tracked, e.g., after drug treatment. Multiplexed quantitative mass spectrometry permits the parallel analysis of several experimental replicates or of up to 11 time points. Here we describe the denaturing purification of biotin-labeled proteins with magnetic streptavidin beads, and subsequent sample preparation for multiplexed quantitative mass spectrometry. Proximity-labeled proteins are enriched under strong denaturing conditions. Tryptic on-bead digest of purified proteins is combined with tandem mass tag peptide labeling (TMT), alkaline reversed-phase peptide fractionation, and SPS MS3 mass spectrometry. This analysis pipeline enables studies of complex protein environment changes in perturbed biological systems, as well as comparative studies of functional protein proximity in different cell lines. Through multiplexing, hundreds of proteins can be quantified in each experimental condition in parallel.
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I would especially like to thank Steve Gygi and members of his laboratory for very insightful discussions during development and optimization of the methods described. I would further like to thank Christian Kaiser, Steven Marx, Simon Jenni, and Emily Gaudiano for critical discussion during preparation and reading of the manuscript.
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Kalocsay, M. (2019). APEX Peroxidase-Catalyzed Proximity Labeling and Multiplexed Quantitative Proteomics. In: Sunbul, M., Jäschke, A. (eds) Proximity Labeling. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2008. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9537-0_4
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